"May the LORD increase, more and more, your love for each other and for all people, as HE increases our love for you. May HE strengthen you, internally, to be holy and blameless before GOD, our FATHER, on the day that JESUS, our LORD, will come with all HIS saints.
For the rest, brothers, we ask you, in the name of JESUS, the LORD, and we urge you, to live in a way that pleases GOD, just as you have learned from us. This you do, but try to do still more. You know the instructions we gave you on behalf of the LORD JESUS:..." - 1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:2
(May the LORD increase more and more your love for each other and for all people. Love manifests itself first within the community and then it must be expanded to all people.
Note also Paul's constant preoccupation: his apostolic mission does not allow him to remain in any community. He is always moving, leaving his work unfinished, but he entrusts his converts to the grace of GOD that does not suppress the freedom of the recent converts nor the work of the Tempter in the world.
If we have given ourselves to CHRIST, that should surely make our life different from what we lived before. The Jews who accepted baptism had a solid moral basis in the laws of the Old Testament. On the other hand, the pagans had only the moral laws observed in their society. Chastity, among others, was completely foreign to them. They considered occasional sexual relationships a necessity of nature, having nothing to do with moral values.)
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